Island, and was last known in a living state only as culti- 

 vated in the Palm House at Kew, and Mr. Melliss, in his 

 excellent work " A Physical, Historical and Descriptive 

 Account of St. Helena," published in 1875, says of it, that 

 weather-beaten stems of it were then still to be found deeply 

 imbedded in the surface soil over a considerable portion of 

 the Island. Of T. Erythroxylon the same author states 

 that there were at that time still two or three plants of it 

 growing amongst the Cabbage trees of Diana's Peak and 

 High Peak, but that the individuals were quickly disappear- 

 ing, adding that a few (perhaps seventeen or eighteen in all) 

 were still cultivated in the Island. I have since heard that 

 but one native tree of it alone remains. As is well known, 

 the destruction of the forest that once clothed the Island 

 of St. Helena is due to indiscriminate felling for fire- 

 wood, and the introduction of goats. 



T. Blaclcburniana was sent for figuring in this work by 

 Mr. F. W. Burbidge, M.A., Curator of the Trinity College 

 Botanical Gardens, Dublin, where it flowered in May of 

 this year. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Stellate hairs of the stem and leaves ; 2, bud with peduncle and 

 bracts, from a sketch by Mr. Burbidge; 3, petal; 4, staminal column; 

 5, group of 3 anthers ; 6, portion of the staminal column showing the sta- 

 minodes; 7, ovary; 8, transverse section of do. ; 9, stellate hairs from do. : — 

 all but fig. 2 enlarged. 



